Books Inc. to open Silicon Valley store in 2016

Books Inc., the independent bookseller, has announced that it plans to open a store in Santa Clara in July 2016.

The 4,000-square-foot store — the bookseller’s 12th — will be located in Santa Clara Square, a mixed workplace complex that’s now under development not far from Levi’s Stadium, home of the San Francisco 49ers.

Books Inc.’s San Jose store closed in the mid-1990s after Barnes and Noble opened a nearby store. The bookseller’s other Peninsula stores are in Burlingame, Mountain View and Palo Alto; its two Compass Books stores are at San Francisco International Airport.

“We are excited to return to the community we served for so many years,” Books Inc. CEO Michael Tucker said in a statement.

In business since 1851, Books Inc. is the West’s oldest independent bookseller.